Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
>
> > Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> >
> > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >I've chased this one for a while. Martin Bialasinski tried to help via
> > > >private
> > > >email, but neither of us could figure out what is wrong.
> > >
> > > >open("~/.Xauthority", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
> > > >directory)
> > > >access("~/.Xauthority", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
> > > >directory)
> > >
> > > The kernel does not know about "~/" as an abbreviation of the
> > > homedirectory,
> > > that's why it fails. I think you have set some environment variable which
> > > xauth uses to "~/" or similar instead of the full path to your
> > > homedirectory.
> > > Check out the output of "set" and/or "printenv" to find out which
> > > variable.
> > >
> >
> > To be more specific, it is the shell (bash, csh, whatever) which expands
> > '~' into
> > the path for your home directory. You probably put this in your
> > .bash_profile:
> >
> > XAUTHORITY="~/.Xauthority"
>
> The solution is, of course:
>
> XAUTHORITY="${HOME}/.Xauthority"
> (AFAIK, $HOME is already set when /etc/profile is run)
>
> But this is the default location. I think it is better to not set the
> variable at all if you don't have a good reason to set it.
Ah, but in the situation I described, you want to point to the logged-in user's
Xauthority, not roots, so using your command above will not work since once you
su HOME
will be root's home directory. Also as you point out you don't need to set it.
I believe
xdm provides it. Also, you must make sure to 'export' the variable.
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Jens B. Jorgensen
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